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To see a list of past events, @Html.ActionLink("click here", "Archive", "Events") to view the Events Archive<br /><br />

<div class="event-date">February 4th, 2015</div>
<div class="event-title">Actors Set the Stage for Project Orleans</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Chris Myers, Senior Consultant, Neudesic</div>
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Dim the lights and queue the music.  The stage has been set, and the 
        virtual actors are soon to arrive.  Come join an engaging discussion 
        on Project Orleans and how it will create for us a world that transcends 
        traditional three-tier architecture and truly achieves solutions with 
        a high degree of performance, reliability, and scalability.
    </p>
    <p>
        In this discussion, Chris will provide an overview of actor model theory 
        and discuss how Orleans leverages virtual actors in order to provide a 
        high throughput, low latency, and high availability solution 
        architecture.  You will also learn how this tried and tested framework has 
        been successfully leveraged in Azure in order to provide the extremely 
        scalable and performant platform that has brought you some of your 
        favorite online Xbox games and Microsoft products.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Chris Myers is a software developer, based out of Phoenix, Arizona, 
        that specializes in .NET technology. Overall, Chris has more than 
        8 years of experience working with Microsoft technologies, which 
        includes, but is not limited to, SQL Server, .NET, and BizTalk. Chris’s 
        expertise is on just about all areas of MS.NET programming, but is 
        focused more on connected systems technology, such as Windows Workflow 
        Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and BizTalk. 
    </p>
    <p>
        Chris can be reached via Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/myerscj">@@myerscj</a>).  Be 
        sure to also check out his blog site: <a href="http://bloggedbychris.com">bloggedbychris.com</a>.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-date">October 1st, 2014</div>
<div class="event-title">From the Internet of Things to Intelligent Systems: A Developer's Primer</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Rick G. Garibay, VP, Distinguished Engineer, Neudesic</div>
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Analysts predict that there will be anywhere from 50 to 200 billion Internet connected devices by 2020. Imagine every device as an object that is capable of communication in both the voluntary exchange of information about itself and its surroundings as well as being able act on the environment around itself in context.
    </p>
    <p>
        The Internet of Things is here, and there is a whole new breed of intelligent systems that have the potential to be bigger than mobility and the cloud combined. In this fast paced, action packed, demo dense session, join 7-time Microsoft MVP Rick G. Garibay for an understanding of what the IoT is all about and how the marriage of modern cloud capabilities with devices like Arduino and Netduino serve as a blue print for enabling new intelligent systems today. This session will also feature and early look at the reference architecture (code-named Reykjavik) that Microsoft has developed for use with high-scale IoT solutions as well as a walk through the recently released Azure Service Bus Event Hub capability.
    </p>
    <p>
        You will learn:
        <ul>
            <li>What IoT is really all about</li>    
            <li>How IoT will change your employer's and client's business</li>
            <li>Devices, application and communication protocols you need to know</li>
            <li>Getting up and running with real-world IoT today while preparing for tomorrow</li>
        </ul>
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Join 7-time Microsoft MVP Rick G. Garibay for a fun and interesting session in which you'll learn what the Internet of Things is all about along with a sneak peak at the reference architecture (code-named Reykjavik).
    </p>
    <p>
        Rick G. Garibay can be reached via Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/rickggaribay">@@rickggaribay</a>).  Also, make sure to check out his blog site: <a href="http://rickgaribay.net">rickgaribay.net</a>
    </p>
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<div class="event-date">August 6th, 2014</div>
<div class="event-title">What's New With ServiceBus</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Chris Holwerda, Senior Consultant, Neudesic</div>
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        In this presentation, we will take a lap around Service Bus.  During the overview, Chris will show us how things can be setup from a non-cloud perspective.  Thereafter, Chris will take us on a journey into the cloud with a full blown Azure ServiceBus implementation.
    </p>
    <p>
        During this implementation, we will get a chance to see how the platform can be used to solve issues in the real world.  Scattered throughout there will be demos that will show us how to implement ServiceBus in our very own application.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        This presentation will be delivered by Chris Holwerda, a consultant with Neudesic, who is a 15+ year architect and developer in the Microsoft technology stack.
    </p>
    <p>
        Chris can be reached via Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/cholwerda">@@cholwerda</a>.  Make sure to check out his blog site: <a href="http://www.chrisholwerda.com">www.chrisholwerda.com</a>
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-date">June 4th, 2014</div>
<div class="event-title">Azure Mobile Services with Windows 8</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Brendon Birdoes, National Solutions Director, Neudesic</div>
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Got an idea for an app and realize you need backend data storage, authentication and other capabilities to make it 
        happen? Azure mobile services can get you up and running in minutes providing typical backend services a mobile 
        applications needs.  These capabilities can even be extended into the enterprise through auto-scale and Azure active directory as an identity store. Whether a big shop or a single developer, Azure Mobile Services can support your application. 
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Brendon is a Microsoft Certified Professional with over thirteen years experience delivering web, mobile 
        and service oriented applications. With a range of experience in the Microsoft technology stack, Brendon 
        focuses on cloud, integration and mobile technologies such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, Azure Service Bus, 
        Azure Platform, Xamarin, WCF and WF. One of his more notable projects was leading the BizTalk development 
        effort for the ESB Toolkit 2.0 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009. He is an active speaker in the Microsoft community, 
        delivering sessions for regional Microsoft events, desert code camp and user groups. Brendon is currently a National 
        Solutions Director at Neudesic.
    </p>
    <p>
        Brendon can be reached on twitter via <a href="http://twitter.com/brendonbirdoes">@@brendonbirdoes</a>.
    </p>
</div> 

<div class="event-date">May 7th, 2014</div>
<div class="event-title">Microsoft Azure Data and HD Insight</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Michael Collins, Product Architect, Neudesic</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        The Cloud is here and is quickly becoming an environment that every software developer must master, but do you truly 
        understand how the Cloud works? The Cloud is a pay-as-you-go world, and everything that you do has a monetary cost 
        that will affect the solutions you build for customers. In part 1 of this discussion, we will look at Cloud Economics 
        and we will explore the pricing structure for storing and manipulating data on the Cloud. You will learn how to 
        not only estimate the time it will take to implement solutions, but be able to estimate the costs needed to keep 
        your solutions running in production.
    </p>
    <p>
        Part 2 of this presentation will be an introduction into HDInsight, Microsoft’s Big Data solution for Azure. We will 
        cover what HDInsight is, how it utilizes Hadoop, and how you can use HDInsight in your applications and custom 
        solutions to process and query large data sets.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Michael Collins works for Neudesic as a product architect for the Neuron ESB product. Michael has been 
        developing software professionally for 20 years and has experience across a wide variety of platforms 
        and environments. Prior to his current role, Michael was the practice director for custom application 
        development for Neudesic in the Phoenix region where he helped to build Neudesic’s local presence. 
        Michael has contributed sessions to the local Phoenix development community through user groups, 
        workshops, and he looks forward to presenting at Desert Code Camp. Michael lives in Surprise, AZ, 
        with his wife, children, and 3 dogs.
    </p>
    <p>
        Michael can be reached on twitter via <a href="http://twitter.com/mfcollins3">@@mfcollins3</a>.
    </p>
</div> 

<div class="event-date">March 5th, 2014</div>
<div class="event-title">Messaging with RabbitMQ</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Rob Bagby, Consultant / Trainer</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Building solutions for complex problems is hard.  The key is breaking the complex system down into smaller, more manageable components.  Small, 
        decoupled components can be developed and tested independently.
    </p>
    <p>
        In this session, Rob Bagby will discuss how to take advantage of messaging to integrate these components together to form the larger system.
    </p>
    <p>
        You will learn, through demos, how to implement messaging in your .net solution with RabbitMQ.  You will further see how messaging will result in a massively scalable, 
        reliable and maintainable solution.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Rob Bagby is an industry recognized architect, developer, speaker and trainer.  He has presented to over 10,000 developers at national and international events such as Microsoft PDC, TechEd, DevConnections, VSLive, Web 2.0 Expo and various product launches.
    </p>
    <p>
        Rob has a track record of implementing successful projects in both Europe and the United States.  For the past 4 years, Rob was architecting and implementing high-risk, high-profile projects in London in the complex energy trading industry.  Prior to that Rob was a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft.  All in all, Rob has been helping to deliver successful software projects for nearly 2 decades.
    </p>
    <p>
        Rob's blog is <a href="http://www.robbagby.com">www.robbagby.com</a>.  Follow him on Twitter via <a href="http://twitter.com/RBagby">@@RBagby</a>.
    </p>
</div> 

<div class="event-date">December 4th, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">SignalR Takes the Bus to Work</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Chris Myers, Senior SharePoint Consultant, Neudesic</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        What happens when you implement SignalR? You receive the ability (server-side) to push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time. What happens 
        when you implement Azure ServiceBus? You seamlessly integrate various platforms and vendors together and promote messaging patterns in the cloud. What happens when you 
        implement Azure ServiceBus and SignalR at the same time? A match made in heaven.
    </p>
    <p>
        In this presentation, Chris will show you some new features that were released that allow you to easily combine Azure ServiceBus topics / queues with SignalR in order to promote cloud 
        hosted messaging with real-time client notifications. Rather than spend a ton of time in power point presentations, this demo will take a deep dive into several real world use cases 
        for the pairing of these two platforms. In this presentation, you can expect overviews and deep dives into core features of both platforms guided through demos and code examples.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Chris is a software developer, based out of Phoenix, Arizona, that specializes in .NET technology. Chris is extremely passionate about mid-tier development and for more than 7 years now, 
        he has developed enterprise integration solutions using a range of platforms including WCF, BizTalk, ASP.NET, and Azure.
    </p>
    <p>
        Chris currently works for Neudesic, LLC and is the president of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group.  Chris is a blogger at <a href="http://bloggedbychris.com/">bloggedbychris.com</a> and sometimes tweets at <a href="http://twitter.com/myerscj">@@myerscj</a>.
    </p>
</div> 

<div class="event-date">November 6th, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">Leveraging a Custom Secure Token Service for Single Sign On</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Lester Sconyers, Senior SharePoint Consultant, Neudesic</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Providing single sign on (SS0) is an integral piece of any application design when multiple applications are involved. No use wants to punch in their credentials several times when 
        accessing multiple applications. SSO is easily accomplished when your applications use windows authentication and your users are in active driectory. Accomplishing SSO becomes more difficult 
        when your application is internet facing and your users do not have windows accounts.
    </p>
    <p>
        In this session we’ll discuss some SSO options that are available. Then we’ll take a deep dive into solving this common problem with Thinktecture’s Identity Server. 
        We’ll leverage Identity Server to provide SSO between SharePoint and an MVC application.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Lester is a Senior Consultant at Neudesic serving the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Development and Configuring) 
        and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (Administration) with over 5 years of SharePoint experience.
    </p>
    <p>
        Lester enjoy all aspects of SharePoint, but feels that development brings the greatest challenges and thrills. This gives him the most freedom to streamline business processes and 
        solve problems with code that bends SharePoint’s walls without breaking them.  When Lester is not punching in code, looking up correlation ID’s, or trying to get the User Profile 
        Synchronization Service to start, he enjoys his family life.
    </p>
    <p>
        Check out Lester’s blog here: <a href="http://www.lestersconyers.com">www.lestersconyers.com</a>
    </p>
</div> 

<div class="event-date">October 2nd, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">The Connected Systems Voyage - Charted and Uncharted Territories</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Chris Myers, President, PCSUG</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        What is it exactly that us connected systems folk are so passionate about?  Service Bus, brokered messaging, SOA, ESB, and EAI are all 
        great buzzwords, but what do they really mean?  What does the software industry look like when seen 
        through the eyes of a connected systems focused software developer?
    </p>
    <p>
        In this presentation, Chris will provide answers to all of these questions.  He will take us all back to our roots and provide a full overview of 
        the patterns and practices that define the connected systems space.  The presentation will take a look at the core foundation that CS developers 
        preach day in and day out.  Furthermore, Chris will not only cover the history of Connected Systems, but will take a look at what the future 
        holds.  There are many amazing technologies that are leading the way into the new connected systems frontier.
    </p>
    <p>
        Whether you are new to PCSUG, wondering what connected systems is all about, or just interesting in joining in on a fun CS discussion, this is definitely 
        going to be a very exciting meetup for you to attend.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Chris Myers is a software developer, based out of Phoenix, Arizona, that specializes in .NET technology.  Overall, Chris has more than 
        8 years of experience working with Microsoft technologies, which includes, but is not limited to, SQL Server, .NET, and BizTalk. 
        Chris’s expertise is on just about all areas of MS.NET programming, but is focused more on connected systems technology, such as 
        Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and BizTalk.            
    </p>
    <p>
        Chris is currently a software consultant for Neudesic and is also the President of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group.  PCSUG meets 
        the first Wednesday of every month in the Interface TT office.
    </p>
    <p>
    </p>
    <p>
        You can get in touch with Chris on twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/myerscj">@@myerscj</a>) or can read his ramblings on his blog 
        (<a href="http://bloggedbychris.com/">Blogged By Chris</a>)
    </p>
</div> 

<div class="event-date">September 4th, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">Windows Azure BizTalk Services</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Rick G. Garibay - General Manager, Connected Systems Practice, Neudesic</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) is a new PaaS service that builds upon existing capabilities for enabling hybrid messaging scenarios in the 
        enterprise and beyond. With support for both EAI and EDI style integration, WABS provides the ability to connect disparate applications that exist 
        behind traditional network, security and business boundaries to support composite workflows typical of modern web, mobile and native applications 
        that need to integrate with ERPs, Line-of-Business systems and Service Providers. 
    </p>
    <p>
        In this session, six-time Microsoft Integration MVP and 2013 Integration MVP of the Year Rick G. Garibay will provide an overview of 
        Windows Azure BizTalk Services and demonstrate its core messaging, routing, mapping and extensibility features that unlock the utility and 
        productivity of your most demanding users. While the talk will be largely focused on EAI workloads, attendees will walk away with a 
        good understanding of the breadth of features across both EAI and B2B/EDI and be ready to provision their own WABS account within minutes. 
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        With over 13 years’ experience delivering solutions on the Microsoft platform across industry sectors such as finance, transportation, 
        hospitality and gaming, Rick is a developer, architect, speaker and author on distributed technologies and is the General Manager 
        of the Connected Systems Development Practice at Neudesic. Rick specializes in distributed technologies such as Microsoft .NET, 
        Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation, and Windows Azure to deliver business value and drive revenue while reducing 
        operational costs. 
    </p>
    <p>
        Rick is the Co-Founder of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group, celebrating 5 years in operation. Recent presentations include 
        talks at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond, WA, Microsoft TechEd, Dev Connections, .NET Rocks, VS Live Las 
        Vegas, VS Live Chicago, Desert Code Camp, and numerous Microsoft events throughout North America. Rick is a frequent contributor to 
        industry publications such as CODE Magazine, and is the co-author of "Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook." by Packt Press. 
    </p>
    <p>
        Rick serves in an advisory role to Microsoft in various capacities including the Microsoft Application Platform Partner Advisory Council, 
        Azure Insiders and Azure Service Bus Advisors. Rick is an active speaker, writer and passionate community advocate in the national 
        Microsoft and SOA community, is a six-time Microsoft Connected Systems MVP, and was honored as Microsoft Integration MVP of the Year in 2013.
    </p>
    <p>
        You can catch up with Rick at http://rickgaribay.net
    </p>
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